Adam Levine was really pissed off about the VMAs this year. [IDLY]
Kit Harington & Rose Leslie are still happening, still cute. [LaineyGossip]
What’s up with Joe Jonas’ mustache? Yikes. [Dlisted]
Katy Perry is still wearing Hillary Clinton t-shirts. [Moe Jackson]
TLC is apparently displeased with Derrick Dillard (Jill Duggar’s husband). [Starcasm]
How many emails exist within the Trump-Russia treason scandal? [Jezebel]
I did not recognize Vanessa Hudgens in this photo. [JustJared]
Jessica Chastain is being embraced by Italy, I think. [Celebslam]
Get well soon, Rick Springfield! [Seriously OMG WTF]
Jensen Ackles is launching a Hurricane Harvey fundraiser. [Socialite Life]
That Lorde performance was so bad. It wasn’t even high school talent show quality much less VMA nationally televised quality. I’m questioning that decision.
Wasn’t she lip synching anyways?
I don’t think it involved singing at all. She turned on a boom box and did some very amateurish modern dance.
She had the flu and couldn’t sing. They should have replaced her with someone else.
She didn’t sing. She did some dance that resembled something I could have sworn I saw in 13 Going on 30. Except those little kids were better.
I was surprised anyone could get away with that. Britney got skewered at the VMAs for that lacklustre performance one year, and that performance was better than what Lorde did.
It wasn’t good, but it wasn’t for lack of effort.
That Britney performance was bad because she came out and attempted to do a typical Britney performance with all the energy of a sloth. Obviously because she was highly medicated, but watching someone perform like that is uncomfortable.
The fact that Britney putting in no effort is more entertaining than watching Lorde give 100% is kind of hilarious to me, since Lorde is considered to be some kind of prodigy for our times.
I didn’t watch but I agree with Adam. I read that they cut off the LP tribute and Jared Leto had to ask 2x for everyone to stand 🙄
Welp, I was certainly not pissed about his absence.
<3 Jensen Ackles
He’s right. It was dumb how they spoke over and then cut off the Julia Michaels performance, as well as the Linkin Park flashback performance. And if Lorde was sick, they could have used the time for commercials and had her not perform. (and I’m a Lorde fan, but that was just silly)
Those are old photos of Katy Perry in Hillary shirts.
Yeap! VMA’s was terrible!
I will always admire Katy Perry for her support and hard work for Hillary Clinton. She put her influence and time in when it mattered.
Do you think she was helpful? I still think those celebs do more damage. Its really great when they say sth, give their two cents, but Perry and Madonna were annoying and they didn’t say anything moving or smart.
Springsteen was simple and honest. Not overdramatic.
She has got a gazillion followers and hopefully motivated a few low voting twentysomethings to pay attention and vote. I admired her wholehearted, unabashed, not worrying about pissing off fans support. And her excitement about electing our first women president. (Painful sentence to write).
Her heart was in the right place. But there was no plan, it all looked very chaotic.
I still remember wonder speech ScarJo gave to support Obama.
… AND I believe that cost her a lot of money. She lost a lot of fans doing that. Even if her new album isn’t up to par with her older ones, there are millions of fans who boycotted her and won’t listen to her anymore because of her support of Hillary. Which is really crappy, honestly. 🙁
Same here ANNEC. I respect her hustle for Hilary a whole lot.
I usually really really dislike Adam Levine (except when I saw Begin Again, I kinda liked him in that) and think he comes across as a douche and I’ve never seen the appeal and why women swoon over him HOWEVER, I absolutely LOVE these comments.
I don’t listen to rock music or watch The Voice so don’t know much about Adam. I’ve seen him covered here, usually negatively, which is fine, but he will always have my heart for his backstage dealing with the young fan who has special needs and became overwhelmed by meeting them. To calm down, he had to lie on the floor and, without missing a beat, Adam announced that lying on the floor was a great idea for the whole band. They have a picture from overhead of all of them just lying there chilling with their fan. I think the parents told the story and released the photo. So he gets several benefits of the doubt from me.
Oh my goodness! I had totally forgot about that! I remember watching it and bawling like a baby.
I think he’s an a**hole and I watch the Voice (his self-absorption and keeping his ‘bro’ pick around drive me nuts), but I think he grew up with a brother who is gay and I think that helped Adam be an empathetic person. He definitely notices when someone’s anxiety is high or they are nervous, and he is really supportive. I think there are some stories about him being kind, which is awesome.
I haven’t liked Adam Levine’s music since “Songs About Jane” which I loved. I had a live recording and it was so fresh and unique. Then they fell into commercialism and that’s the way they’ve sounded ever since. And he comes off as arrogant and haughty.
Did anyone ever catch his “Cribs” episode back in the day? That forever cemented my opinion of him. Unbelievably pretentious, convinced he’s always the most intelligent and interesting person in every room .
When he started going on about how he and his band mates sense of humour was so “high” that other people just don’t get them, I wanted to slap my TV.
He will always be king of the punchable face.
Now after reading Carol’s post, I need to reassess. Not about the music but about the person.
Here you go, Other Renee: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6801812
As a mom of two with special needs, this gets me every time. Might have something in my eye right now.
cannot wait to read tomorrow’s posts re: FLOTUS ridiculousness
A FLOTUS baseball cap and five-inch stilettos. As one wears when visiting a disaster area.
Hats off to Kit Harrington for being obvious the day after the GOT finale that he and his girlfriend are still together. Part of me thought we will have to play up a faux ‘Jon and Dany are hooking up in real life’ romance for the show. Or maybe he is making a point to the producers that he’s not going to play that game?
I usually don’t agree with Lainey but her insight into the GOT finale is seriously onpoint! I couldn’t understand why we were supposed to think the aunt and her nephew incest fcking was romantic but yeah in retrospect I guess we were supposed to be grossed out by it. I blame Kit’s perfect distracting arse and bad writing. Bran should have said, “Sam, we have to tell him the dragon Queen is his aunt and he shouldn’t have bent the knee to her.”
When you try to give it your all in a performance, but the entire world mocks you. What has Lorde done that makes everyone feel like it’s okay to bully?